Chapter 1644

In Qi Sea grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan’s main body pulls an orange-yellow luck qi out of unlimited qi sea. Luck qi is an immortal material rarely seen at such a scale. He is dismantling this killer move, Qi Xiang’s greatest trump card, on the fifth day since the grotto-heaven fell. Two days ago he bound the three Qi clan Gu Immortals by enslavement agreements, namely Qi Ping Su, Qi Fa and Qi Cai. Ying Wu Xie and the others dealt with the movable resources. ^{ch. 1644}

The move is qi path and unusable for him, but dismantling it yields a vast amount of qi. Three more days will finish the extraction, and only then can he refine its Gu without risking the backlash of a complete and extraordinary killer move. Six Immortal Gu make it up, with rank eight Big Qi as the core. He pays most attention to rank seven Big Family Qi, which stores all sorts of qi and holds tribulation qi far better than the many small family qi Gu he once used. It lets him weaken strong tribulations by absorbing their qi, gain more dao marks by releasing it against weak ones, and store outside heaven and earth qi for his aperture. He judges it much more helpful than Big Qi. ^{ch. 1644}

A few days later he has absorbed all the qi, stored what he can and sold the rest in treasure yellow heaven. He also sells resources from Qi Sea grotto-heaven and the Five Xiang’s public grotto-heaven, mostly trading goods for goods. Rank eight now gives him white litchi immortal essence, which he produces in his sovereign immortal aperture rather than buying at ten thousand stones a bead. Most of his trade goes to immortal materials for mass refining Gu. ^{ch. 1644}

Ying Wu Xie, now in the body of a Gu Immortal from Southern Border’s Yang clan, comes to him in secret. He notes that Fang Yuan rented the three Qi clan Gu Immortals their refined Immortal Gu back, and asks why Bai Ning Bing is not controlled the same way. He warns that she is useful only until Fang Yuan’s own ice and snow path attainment grows, and that Bai Xiang lets her easily break an alliance agreement. Fang Yuan answers that she would die rather than surrender. He values her highly, since he needs manpower against Heavenly Court, and she cannot turn to it and needs him to refine yin yang rotation Immortal Gu to restore her male body. ^{ch. 1644}

Ying Wu Xie calls his group too useless. Fang Yuan promises to raise the battle strength of Ying Wu Xie, Hei Lou Lan and the others. As a rank eight he can afford it, expects them to be useful later, and can speed their apertures with time path methods and help them through tribulations. Ying Wu Xie leaves happily. ^{ch. 1644}

Fang Yuan then shows Hei Lou Lan the captive Gu Immortal Hei Cheng, her father, whom she hates deeply. She wants to tear him to pieces but holds back as Fang Yuan stores Hei Cheng again in his immortal aperture. She asks whether Fang Yuan means to recruit him. Fang Yuan says he holds her in higher regard than Hei Cheng and that she will take revenge one day if she cultivates hard and earns contributions. She says she understands, and feels extremely helpless at how far he has exceeded her. ^{ch. 1644}